Queering the Jewish Holidays: How I Celebrate Rosh Hashanah & Yom Kippur
Apples! Honey! Vision boards! Fasting! Resolutions! Let’s talk about how we celebrate the Jewish High Holidays.
Monday Roundtable: Breaking Up and Fucking Up
Just some of the many ways we ruin our lives after a breakup.
Sunday Funday Is Excited for Dream Daddy Comics
A Black lesbian couple is changing the Palm Springs gay scene, a portrait series celebrating older trans people, the DNC adopted language to include non-binary people and more!
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Quantifying Desire
Don’t sleep with your ex. Plus the age at which self-esteem peaks, how to get comfortable with your junk, top sexual fantasies and more.
Femme Brûlée: Blueberry Skillet Cornbread
“It’s amazing what baking can do for a bad day, especially when there’s something as tantalizing as blueberry skillet cornbread waiting at the finish line.”
September 2018 Queer Horoscopes: You Already Know How to Clean Up Your Retrograde Messes
Make peace with uncertainty in all your relationships, and trust that Virgo season will help you achieve some needed clarity.
Baopu #50: Too Awesome for Mom and Dad
“My parents fight so much. And when I spend time with them I become miserable and toxic, just like them!”
The Autostraddle Insider: Issue 48, August 2018
“for a second i was like…………….did i break this channel
with my confession”
Boob(s On Your) Tube: The Sinner’s Black Lesbian Detective Digs Up an Old First Love Story to Understand a New Murder
The Sinner’s Second Season has a black lesbian lead and a very compelling mystery. Plus updates on: Coronation Street, General Hospital, Younger, The Young and the Restless, and Killjoys!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: LET’S MAKE A MAKEOUT PLAYLIST
This Friday, we’re getting ahead of the game and making a playlist together for cuffing season! Add your favorite song to our collaborative playlist and talk about it in the comments!
The Comment Awards Are Kissing at the VMAs
“All my favorite lesbian love stories start when the hats align.”
Things I Read That I Love #271: Academic Celebrity Soaks Up Blood Like a Pair of Thinx
Topics include the Avital Ronnell case, “blackqueer heartbreak and forestalled nostalgia,” airplane hijacking, disaster tourism, Otto Warmbier, Myers-Briggs, the war on drugs, stripping in Portland, what it’s like to be black and work in fashion, the War on Drugs and more!
Types of Crying as Mitski Songs
“Intense but very brief sobbing in the shower while you get ready for work because your roommate never leaves the fucking apartment and it’s the only time you can.”
“Wild Mares” Is a Story of Women’s Land and the Midwestern Lesbians Who Loved It (and Each Other)
“At the end of the prologue, I had to put the book down, because I had broken out in ugly, heaving sobs on a Monday night in the dog days of summer, after a hot and heated and emotionally heavy July eclipse, drinking a glass of rose in my apartment in Harlem.”
Cynthia Nixon vs. Andrew Cuomo: She Thinks She Can Win, He’s Worried She’s Right
“The debate found Cuomo clumsily trying to paint Nixon as nothing more than a deranged actor only to be met, repeatedly, with the passionate rejoinders of a lifelong activist and New Yorker who graduated from the public school system, sent her own kids through the public school system, and rides the crumbling New York City subway every day.”
Butch Slut
In the pool hall, my sweetheart and a close friend tease me one night: “unimpressive,” “pure luck,” “you aren’t that good.” They were trying to get my ire up so that an hour later when I told them to stare into each other’s eyes as I fucked my sweetheart’s body, I would mean it with a snarky competitive vengeance, I would mean it with power and control, I would be pushed to take what I want.
The Batwoman Comics You Need to Read Before Her New TV Show
Everything you need to know before her new TV show!
13 Queer Films From Kanopy You Can Stream With Your Library Card For Free
Thirteen of the queerest films from Kanopy, a database you can access through your local library!
Lez Liberty Lit: Kink and History
A new history of BDSM. Plus women in translation, the Asian and Asian American literature explosion and more.
La Boda Jota #1: We’re Not Gonna Wait ‘Til I’m 28
As I quickly learned from the jump, when two queer Latinas are trying to get married — something that sometimes feels like is unheard of — there’ll be some bumps in the road.